This paper presents a parent training program developed as an alternative, non-residential treatment approach for families of delinquent youths. When a child is referred to the clinic for behavior problems such as aggressiveness, disobedience, theft, and truancy, the program includes the parents in the total treatment. The major goal is to teach…

Intended for vocational rehabilitation facilities, the document presents guidelines for the provision of vocational evaluation services to deaf persons. Explained in Section I is the vocational evaluation process, with chapters covering an introduction and overview, delivery of services to deaf clients, and objectives and process of the vocational…

A semantic differential instrument containing a series of 25 concepts was administered to 29 junior high school science teachers at the beginning and conclusion of a six-week summer institute organized to prepare teachers to teach the new Intermediate Science Curriculum Study (ISCS) program. Teachers were provided with the opportunity for in-depth…

This article presents an example of a university College of Education faculty becoming involved with the school society which it serves. The results of a needs assessment, conducted by inservice teacher education directors in six districts in Florida, showed a need for workshops on curricular innovations, particularly individualized instruction.…

A career education project was conducted at the Texas School for the Deaf (TSD) to develop a plan of implementation of career education for grade levels 1-12, to train teachers in career education concepts and techniques and in how to write curriculum materials, to develop and duplicate teacher guides and materials for grade levels 1-8, and to…

To encourage teachers to use the language-experience approach (LEA) in teaching reading-language skills, a workshop was conducted in which teachers participated in a language-experience lesson. Participants were asked to discuss a controversial topic of current interest; during group discussion, ideas and vocabulary were evoked from the group.…

Written in a simple question/answer format, this manual is designed to assist educators in locating information on how to develop and implement a career education program in a rural area. Chapter I gives a historical overview of the career education program in the Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative area. Chapter II details the various…

This volume is a collection of articles, activities and resources in the foreign language field from both state and national sources. The collection deals with teaching methods, trends in the field, instructional materials, learning activities and creative student work. Various kinds of resources for foreign language teachers, including…

The product of Phase II of a two-year project funded by the U.S. Office of Education to prepare, evaluate, and distribute a print-based curriculum on critical television viewing skills for teenagers, and to prepare guides and workshops on television viewing for parents and teachers, this final report describes tasks undertaken in four areas during…

A description of the structure and approach of a workshop held to identify and explore important issues relating to the future of Japanese collections in academic and research libraries is provided, as well as eight papers presented at the workshop together with written reactions to the papers by other workshop participants. Topics covered…

Designed to construct a frame of reference and to encourage attitudes that facilitate productive dialogue during and after the conference, this address gives an overview of American mobility, re-examines the problem of managing the education of the migrant/mobile student, explains the structure of the National Policy Workshop on Education for…

To provide a scholarly basis for justifying and implementing a parent involved reading program, this annotated bibliography provides a review of the literature that helps to clarify the role of the parents, teachers, and administrators in reading progress; gives suggestions regarding the way parents can help their children in reading; and compiles…

This 1974 report describes the history of the Commission on College Geography, which was supported by the National Science Foundation. There are four major parts to the paper. Part I deals with the objectives of the commission. It was established in 1963 as an outgrowth of the work of the Liberal Education Committee appointed by the Council of the…

In times of educational retrenchment, decreasing enrollments among traditional students, and restraints on faculty salaries, college educators need to explore new and innovative types of programs such as off-campus instruction in classroom communication for teachers. An off-campus program provides an excellent opportunity for a communications…

"Across Ages: Entering the 80's--the Quality of Life," was the theme of a week-long multidisciplinary, intergenerational (ages 14 to 92) model program sponsored by Temple University's Institute on Aging, and held on its suburban Ambler (Pennsylvania) campus in the summer of 1980. Aimed at devising methods of stimulating dialogue and…